It's Happened...It's History...It Matters

I just want to drop a little forgotten (ignored may be a better word) history nugget. 

The Star-Spangled Banner was written by Francis Scott Key, a slave owner, in 1814 during the War of 1812. He owned human beings when he wrote the song and still owned them when he died. 

When he wrote the line that's sung with gusto and pride, "O’er the land of the free...", it did NOT include every person--human being--in America. Certainly not the enslaved folk he held in bondage.

His song was adopted as the anthem of the United States of America in 1931.

When your lips tremble to rebuke and low-rate folk who object to the song being considered their anthem, please remember this little nugget of history...because they do.

All I'm sayin' is exactly what I said.

Just keepin' it real...